[ISEA2024] Paper: Michael Trommer — Spectral Sound Systems: Mapping the Mnemonic Soundscape

Abstract Keywords: Acoustemology, acoustic ecology, Anthropocene, acoustic territories This paper considers urban spaces as commercialized topographies of deliberately deployed sonic mnemonics, examining how an acoustemological approach to mapping locale might be reconfigured to address retail environmental music (often referred to as Muzak) as an infrastructural element that bears the capacity to territorialize both their vibratory … Continue reading [ISEA2024] Paper: Michael Trommer — Spectral Sound Systems: Mapping the Mnemonic Soundscape